Wordbank: An open repository for developmental vocabulary data

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 677-694

  Frank, Michael C ^a   Braginsky, Mika ^a   Yurovsky, Daniel ^a   Marchman, Virginia A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION CENTER; LINGUISTICS; SCIENTIST; STUDENT; FACTUAL DATABASE; INFANT; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOFTWARE; VOCABULARY;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84969132836     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000916000209     Document Type: Article

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